The one component that you wish you had not bought

I had some  high cost speakers in my days , Dynaudio, B&W,J.M. Reynard,and Paradigm all very good to a degree. "But" per cost to performance all over priced . Do to  money and fixed income not to mention rising cost . I just purchase a pair of JBL LC310-1 speakers from a Antique shop in almost in perfect condition for 50 bucks cash .These speakers are least 20 years old . Then ran to Mangola, Best Buy turned in my Sony small 3 way speakers received credit . The young girl at the refund counter  was in love with the manager . Not paying attention that the speakers were bought 6 months ago . Took credit and purchase the New Rotel RA-12 intergrated amp , hook it up to the JBL speakers . "Wow sounded just as good but of course different then those high cost brand names . Total cost 775 bucks for the speakers and amp. "But" I do have good quality Wire World speaker cables and Chord interconnects and a Nad CD payer .The Rotel is a quality unit for $$$. Very nice Dac too, a very clean and clear sound and power full sounding for 60 watts . Only complaint the functions buttoms on the unit and remote are tiny , need Superman eyes to see them .Just goes to say shop around for a grand you can put together a nice system .

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A brand new $4,000 turntable ( I won't mention the company's name because they make good turntables). It's just that I had forgotten all the problems with vinyl, pops, clicks surface noise, having to clean the records, set up etc. Give me a good quality DAC anytime. Although the kids (those under 30) seem to be fascinated with the turntable and are always asking me to play some records GEEeeeeez.

A pair of speakers that were not a good fit efficiency wise with my amplifiers.  Sounded great but hard to drive them to their best

The KR 842 tube based amplifier. Stuck with it to this day. No support from KR when the transformer blew,so I'm got stuck with a worthless amp. I keep in the attic as a reminder to never buy anything from them again! Average sound at best and garbage build quality.